Pacific Media Watch
Pacific Media Watch is compiled for the Pacific Media Centre as a regional media freedom and educational resource by a network of journalists, students, stringers and commentators.
Indonesia’s Papua ‘cover-up reflex’ prompts police dormitory raid
A video of a demonstration marking the bloody Biak massacre of 6 July 1998 staged last year. Video: BBB Times
By Michelle Winowatan
Dozens of Indonesian...
RSF condemns killing of radio journalist – shot in Philippines
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the killing of Philippine radio journalist Joey Llana near Legazpi City, at the southeastern tip...
Protests gather force over Nauru ban on ABC from Pacific Forum
By Mong Palatino
Protests have been gathering force over the Nauru government ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from entering the country to cover...
Colin Peacock: New era heralded in broadcasting – or more of...
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock of RNZ's Mediawatch
The allocation of $15 million for public broadcasting will be split between RNZ, New Zealand on Air and...
Journalist tells of Rainbow Warrior bombing, Pacific fallout on ABC
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Pacific environmental and political journalist David Robie has recalled the bombing of the original Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior 33 years ago...
Nauru government’s move against press freedom ‘disgraceful’
COMMENT: By Miranda Ward on Red Ink
The Nauru government’s refusal to allow the ABC from entering the country to cover the upcoming Pacific Islands...
Help ‘revitalise’ Australia’s broadcast voice in Asia-Pacific, say advocates
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A group of Australia-based supporters is trying to revitalise Australian broadcasting in the Pacific and Asia region.
For more than 50 years,...
RSF plea to Indonesia to investigate reporter’s death in detention
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an independent inquiry into the death in detention of Muhammad Yusuf, a reporter who...
China takes up Australia’s former radio frequencies in Pacific
By RNZ Pacific
China has taken over many of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's former shortwave radio frequencies into the Pacific.
In response to budget cuts, the...
Rappler’s editor Maria Ressa wins global press freedom award
Golden Pen winner Maria Ressa talks about "government impunity" over "war on drugs" killings and social media hate speech. Video: Rappler
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Rappler...
Barbara Dreaver: Why is NZ and the world turning its back...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 News Pacific correspondent
Over the years, many graphic and violent images of torture and beatings have emerged from the Indonesia-controlled...
PNG students in China say Facebook move is ‘irrelevant’ and damaging
By Melisha Yafoi in Beijing
Students studying in Beijing, China, have described the move by Papua New Guinea's Communications Minister Sam Basil to suspend Facebook...
PNG plans to shut down Facebook for one month to target...
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Papua New Guinea plans to shut down Facebook for one month to enable the government to filter out "fake users", report...
Fiji Times Four ‘relieved’ sedition newspaper freedom ordeal is over
By Geraldine Panapasa, editor-in-chief of Wansolwara
“Relief!”
That was the word from Fiji Times Ltd publisher Hank Arts after High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe acquitted...
Fiji newspaper sedition trial – Fiji Times Four found not guilty
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The High Court in Suva has found the Fiji Times Ltd, its three senior executives and a letter writer not guilty...
Hot off the press – Wansolwara marks USP’s 50th anniversary
By Elizabeth Osifelo in Suva
The first edition of the University of the South Pacific’s student journalist training newspaper Wansolwara for the year has hit...
Jale Moala: Fiji’s longest day – George Speight and the march...
BRIEFING: By Jale Moala in Port Moresby
MAY 19, 2000: As editor of the Fiji Daily Post newspaper in Suva, I was expecting some big...
Justice Rajasinghe to deliver Fiji Times sedition trial verdict on Tuesday
By Litia Cava in Suva
High Court judge Justice Thushara Rajasinghe is set to deliver his verdict on Tuesday after the three assessors returned with...
Fiji Times sedition trial assessors give unanimous ‘not guilty’ opinion
By Talebula Kate in Suva
The three assessors in The Fiji Times sedition trial tonight returned a unanimous not guilty opinion on all counts.
They found...
Martyn Bradbury: Still awaiting the birth of a real Fourth Estate
By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
I was fortunate enough to get a guest ticket to go along with Voyager to the NZ...
Journalists’ free alliance advocate calls on minister to use UN ‘leverage’
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The Australian journalist and academic who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison has welcomed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's...
Tuilaepa accuses Pohiva of being ‘jello’ over Samoan press freedom
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielelgaoi has accused his Tongan counterpart 'Akilisi Pohiva of being "jello" - jealous - of Samoa's media freedom...
